Book Review

A Report for the Government Study Fellowship, by Ian Burdon. TheRegisters of ScotlandExecutive Agency, 1998. ISBN 0 9534180 0 6, £8.95 REVIEWED BY ROSEMARY COLQUHOUN, WS. Rosemary Colquhoun is Secretary of the Scottish Group committee. This is a Report of a project which explores changes which would be requiredwere electronic registration of title to land…

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Letter to the Editor

Andrew Katz, Brethertons Thank you for yet another interesting and informative Computers and Law.May I be permitted to make the following point about computer cryptography: Since the technology is now widely available to enable anyone with access tothe Internet to encrypt information in a way which we are led to believe ispractically uncrackable (for example…

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Letter to the Editor

Jon Vogler, Active Backup Delia Venables’ Ten Tasks for 1999 (Dec/Jan issue) was practical anddown-to-earth advice. But by writing (in this and earlier articles) exclusivelyabout PCs she is creating the problems her advice aims to solve. Phrases like`their networks do not run very well’ or `are people allowed to put disks intotheir own PCs’ or…

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